Creator Bio
Netiva Ben-Yehuda
1928–2011
Author and broadcaster Netiva Ben-Yehuda was born in Tel Aviv. She studied at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, at the University of London, and at the Hebrew University. She was a noted member of the Palmach. Ben-Yehuda was an editor of the Encyclopedia Hebraica and served as a spokeswoman in the Ministry of Labor. In 1996, she began a weekly broadcast on a popular late-night program of talk and music. Ben-Yehuda championed the importance of spoken Hebrew.
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Primary Source
World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang
Before the custodians of the purity of the Hebrew language begin to tear their hair out in protest of the so-called indecent acts committed herein, in full view, upon the…